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Rina Picciotto

@brightphoebus.bsky.social
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Book lover, knitter and champion of small humans 0-5 years old

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Not to harp on this, but one man has now coordinated the disruption of a port, two separate attacks on the RNLI, and interference with the border force and the police have no further questions? And the Home Secretary has not noticed?
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The RNLI has said the abuse of volunteers in Portsmouth has forced it to close the lifeboat station there and stop operating since September 10. Nearby stations have been providing cover to the area instead. One of the UK's largest coastal cities without a lifeboat because of the far-right.
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Frances Hinde @francesh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Jail them
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Byline Times has identified seven Reform councillors who are listed as members of the masked anti-migrant groups bylinetimes.com/2026/09/16/t...
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The Reform Councillors Embedded in Britain’s Masked 'Patriot' Anti-Migrant Network
A Reform councillor and campaign co-ordinater urged his followers to join and support the masked group
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Dee Lomas @deelomas.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The RNLI volunteer has told us that donations usually run at £20,000 per day. Currently running at £100,000 per day! Bloody brilliant!
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11/09/2026
Shanah Tovah, New York! Wishing all Jewish New Yorkers celebrating a sweet, joyful and meaningful Rosh Hashanah. Here’s to a new year filled with health, happiness and blessings (and yes, even another Knicks championship).
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
NEW Why holding a placard is a terrorist act, while causing disruption in a balaclava is not The mess caused by ministers and the police not taking terrorism law seriously By me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

Recent events in England now reveal the practical difference between terrorists and protesters. It would seem that terrorists peacefully hold placards and get immediately arrested, while protesters wear black uniforms and balaclavas and disrupt infrastructure and do not get arrested.

How did we get into this mess? How have we placed ourselves in the position where terrorism legislation is used to detain and prosecute peaceful protesters, while those adopting the terror tactics of private armies seem to be free to do as they wish?

The reason is that for some time British politicians have not taken terrorism legislation seriously, and that ministers have got into the habit of misusing terror laws for easy targets.
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Danny Tommo, Nigel Farage, Arron Banks - living examples of how the British private school class system cannot buy you class
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This should not be described by the police as "lawful protest" when it is not lawful & not protest
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cb24resident.bsky.social @cb24resident.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Zero arrests! In 2021 #KentPolice arrested 39 climate activists who disrupted the same port for 2 hours! www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...
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Port of Dover: Arrests made as Insulate Britain blocks port
Queues form at Europe's busiest ferry terminal as Insulate Britain shift their protest from the M25.
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MTDomain 🦋 @mtdomain.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
It was organised by Daniel Thomas, who was Stephen Yaxley-Lennon's sidekick. He also hosted the 'Raise the Flag' group, has a record of far-right activism & disruption, and a criminal record which includes a conviction for kidnap.
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James Trundy Verrill @jamestrundyverrill.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
We are not a divided country. We are a country being divided, on purpose, by people who make money off the fight. Once you see the business model you cannot unsee it.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
It's funny how no-one ever asks where the money is coming from when you announce a cut in immigration.
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Legal C @legalclaret.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This disingenuous commentary doesn’t help anyone. Frauds start unravelling pretty quickly. That you apparently cannot afford to put your oven or treat yourself is quickly undermined by the question “so why are you spending £50 per week on petrol?” Then, it turns out, she has an agent and /1
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Andy Burge 🇬🇧🇪🇺 @andygjburge.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Hard-rightwing conference that professes to support free speech bans .... free speech 🤔🤪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCDX... via @mattmgallagher.bsky.social at @bylinetimes.bsky.social
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'Patriot News' Kicked Out of Liz Truss' CPAC for Asking the Wrong Questions
YouTube video by Byline Times TV
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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
GB News has *yet again* aired commentary linking LGBTQ+ people to paedophilia... www.attitude.co.uk/news/gb-news... These advertisers appeared in the ad slot which followed: All Clear Travel, Maxus, Repair My Kitchen, Mobex Touch, Mansfield Fireplaces and Stoves Centre
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 01/07/2026
Dodgy shops on your local high street? They're still paying rent. And what if they're actually *pricing out* the legitimate cafes, restaurants, thanks to the option of "simply not paying your taxes" and therefore having more budget to pay landlords. www.londoncentric.media/p/who-wants-...
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Last year, Govt won a £122m judgment against Douglas Barrowman and Michelle Mone's company PPE Medpro, for supplying defective PPE The company had been emptied of cash and collapsed Now its liquidators are suing Barrowman, Mone and associated companies personally Short 🧵
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
It tells you everything you need to know about Kemi Badneoch and Nigel Farage that as London schools, hospitals and transport networks all buckle under extreme record-breaking temperatures, they gather with fossil fuel lobbyists, climate deniers and the far-right to demand an end to Net Zero
bylinetimes.com
As Extreme Heat Hits London, Fossil Fuel Interests and Global Far-Right Politicians Gather for a 'Glastonbury of Climate Science Deniers'
Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch are both scheduled to address the event, reports Max Colbert
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Womble1958 @wimblewomble1958.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Has Farage called for pure cold rage yet? 🤔🤷🏻‍♂️ #FarageRiots #Edinburgh www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Five injured in suspected anti-Muslim attacks after armed man roamed Edinburgh streets
Two people were injured close to a mosque and a man was later seen battering the door of a pizzeria as members of the public run away.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
“Someone who is rioting doesn’t know that the person they are targeting is actually looking after their mother or their granny” Nor, it seems, do the far right politicians who whip up the rioters with their racism and hate. The harm Farage does is criminal. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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‘It was so terrifying’: care workers tell of being trapped at home by Belfast mob
Sumayah Nakazibwe and Stella Ariokot feared they would be next as fires took hold of neighbouring houses
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
A reminder that Brazil banned Twitter for failing to stop the spreading of disinformation. There is nothing stopping the British government from doing the same.
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Rightly angry piece from @iandunt.bsky.social about the Populist Right BS that followed the awful Henry Nowak murder case and how the media/national conversation has been drawn into it. iandunt.substack.com/p/an-abysmal...
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 26/05/2026
A quarter of young children now live in the private rented sector. In fact, children are now more likely than adults to do so. 🏠 More in our latest Housing Outlook➡️ buff.ly/SNjZ77G
Figure showing the growing number of children living in the private rented sector. 

While fewer than one-in-ten under-11s lived in the PRS in 2000-01, by 2024-25 it was one-in-four. The number of children living in the private rented sector has tripled – from 1.1. million children in 2000-01 to 3.2 million in 2024-25. As a result, children are now more likely than adults to live in the tenure (23 per cent compared to 22 per cent).
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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Big demo, London. #standuptoracism
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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Sharing, without comment, British newspapers’ depictions of the only Jewish person currently leading a UK political party . Times. Mail. Telegraph. Sun.
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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 03/05/2026
This is grotesque on multiple levels.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
It's not a political party. It's an engine of enrichment for greedy millionaire white men. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Reform frontbench promotes JCB’s pothole machine after firm’s £200,000 donation
Nigel Farage, Lee Anderson and Robert Jenrick, among others, have sung the praises of the JCB PotHole Pro
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Left: Conservative Victoria Atkins says Jewish people are afraid to walk the streets of our capital city on these marches #BBCQT Right: Except of course the Jewish people walking the streets of our capital city on these marches
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
"Hands up if you took £5 million from a billionaire and didn't declare it because you think the rules don't apply to you"
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Carol Hedges @riotgrandma.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
🙄🇬🇧🙄🇬🇧🙄🇬🇧🙄🇬🇧🙄 We now have an entire media who would rather see a Farage govt, leading to the demise of the NHS and an alliance with the far right US Christian Nationalist fuckers than support the govt we elected And its drift towards EU alignment Putin must be laughing his head off.
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Reform are announcing today that they would review and retrospectively strip asylum status from hundreds of thousands of people who are making their lives in the UK. Notable that the Conservative response to the plan seem to effectively endorse it.
Conservative response to Reform reversing asylum grants 

Chris Philp MP, Shadow Home Secretary, said:

“The Conservatives have already proposed a detailed BORDERS plan to pull out of the ECHR and completely ban asylum claims by illegal immigrants. Instead, we would deport them within a week of arrival.  

“The Conservative’s Removals Force will deport 150,000 immigrants each year with no right to be here.  

“Reform is slowing catching up with our ideas - but without the detail that will ensure it works in practice.”
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 06/04/2026
“How lucky is the United States that everytime they look for democracy in other countries they find oil instead”- Spain Deputy Gabriel Rufián
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
This is appalling. How on earth can the trip planned by King Charles possibly go ahead after this?
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
My Easter reading: "..the Lord said I was hungry and you told me I could make a meal for 30p, I was a stranger and you told me to fuck off back where I came from, I was sick and you said I should get private health insurance..."
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
The Government is considering scrapping the NHS-Palantir deal. Do you want Palantir out of the NHS? RT if you do. #PalantirOUT
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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Cops have twice raided Quaker meeting houses to arrest people- and seize their phones/laptops - without so far charging anyone. Are we seeing pre-emptive policing to make the very idea of protest impossible? www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/identi...
prospectmagazine.co.uk
Britain has stopped believing in freedom of protest
Recent police raids show the authorities are clamping down not just on protest, but the very idea of it
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Afzal Khan MP @afzalkhanmcr.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
A sitting Member of Parliament claiming Muslims practicing their faith in public amounts to domination & division is racist & brings the House of Commons into disrepute. I’ve reported Nick Timothy MP to the Parliamentary Commissioner on Standards. We all deserve better from our elected officials.
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New Luddite Movement @newludditemovement.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
So, education is in a spiral of worse inputs (AI doing the work instead of students learning,) and worse outputs (medium and long-term skill loss.) When a society loses the ability to educate its citizens effectively, that's a death spiral, not an achievement.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Nigel Farage wants to get rid of the NHS and replace it with US style insurance. Can you afford $50,000 for a broken leg, $500,000 for a new heart, or $2,000,000 for cancer. Or are you dying?
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martindvz.bsky.social @martindvz.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
No Palantir anywhere in the United Kingdom.
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Can anyone explain to me what the Blue Labour justification for this is? Who out there will vote Labour because Mahmood prevented a Sudanese Chevening Scholar? And to be honest, why won’t the PM simply overrule her?
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Abysmal, immoral, cruel, small hearted, tiny minded, ineffective, undemocratic, and just generally utterly indecent. What a bitter godforesaken disappointment these people are. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Refugee status becomes temporary in asylum shake-up
Adults and accompanied children claiming asylum will only receive refugee status for 30 months under the changes.
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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
This 'correction' from @lewisgoodall.com regarding accusations from Reform and the Conservatives that the Greens engaged in sectarianism, deserves to be widely read. #c4news
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
There's a whole thing going down on the right wing X-sphere where vloggers go and stand outside mosques... try to provoke worshippers... and then claim they have been "assaulted" - despite the people on the footage appearing to be entirely reasonable and just asking them to go home.
l've just been attacked by a gang
of Muslims outside of East London
Mosque in Whitechapel.


During the time of Ramadan, and after
a Christian preacher was antagonised
by Muslims, I decided to do some
interviews and debate outside of
East London Mosque. Immediately
afterwards, a gang of men surrounded
me and threatened to mug me
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Fixed that headline for you: ‘One (1) farmer who farms 1,000 acres doesn’t like rewilding, we’ve made that the basis of our headline in a classic example of false balance. PS everyone else in the story loves the idea of the Wildlife Trusts buying the Rothbury Estate’ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
'Bid to buy Rothbury Estate as divisive as Brexit'
Funds are being raised to buy the Northumberland estate - but the plans have split opinion.
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Everyone Hates Elon @everyonehateselon.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Not sure if Man United owner Jim Ratcliffe will see this being as he literally migrated to Monaco to avoid paying tax in the UK, but we wanted to put this up outside the stadium anyway…. 📍 Old Trafford, Matt Busby Way
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